It was a little more insidious than that. The King of France was heavily in debt to the Templars. Rather than pay up, he simply had them arrested and executed.
“It was a little more insidious than that. The King of France was heavily in debt to the Templars. Rather than pay up, he simply had them arrested and executed.”
Happened to the Jews all the time in the middle ages. That’s why everyone was basically a serf, you didn’t really own anything your Lord did and generously rented it out to you. Same concept for communist, the state owns everything and the elite get to decide who gets what of the resources. This is were we are going and it frustrates me to no end that it’s the conservatives in both the courts and the politicians that support this kind of BS. Private property rights is one of the central pillars of a free society and once that’s destroyed we will degenerate into some kind of tyrannical form of government (already have in a lot of ways).
If you want to see how private property rights should be handled look at the old testament. Gods laws were very protective of an individuals property, no taxes on property only on what was produced by that property, redemption rights and debt forgiveness. It was very protective of the little guy and was supposed to keep the elites in line.